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ANHUI GOVERNOR.
WANTS TO RESIGN.
Poking. May 3.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
DUKEDOM OF SOMERSET,
SERIOUSLY ILL.
Sir Edward H. Seymour's Claim Allowed.
Viscount Milner, who is reported by cablo to be ill with slooping sickness.
The Committeo for Privileges in the House of Lorde has A mandate issued last night allowed the claim of Brigadier- mentions the receipt of a petition General Sir Edward Hamilton from Wang I-tang praying that Baymour to the dukodom of ho be relievod from his post of Bomoreet. The petitioner's claim Civil Governor of Anhui,
jdepended upon the validity of the The mandato, after dwelling on marriage of his ancestor Colonpl Wang I-tang's past, meritorious Francis Compton Seymour with Hudson, who WAS services, says that his resignation Leonora
the wife of John! of the post of Tupan bad already formerly boon accepted, but the Govern- Hudson. Upon this claim Mr. ment relies on him to purify the Henry Sydney Seymour and the local administration. He, there- Marquess of Hertford obtained fore, is directed to remain on the leave to attend the proceedings alert as Civil Governor, and not to protect their interoeta, and to persist in resigning-Daily they attanded by their respective counsel at the first hoaring "Bulletin.
of the claim. But at a sub- ANOTHER RESIGNATION. saquent hearing in December last Mr. Henry Seymour Peking, May 3. Wang Ju-thun, Commander-in-withdrew all opposition to the tho Marquess of Chief of the Upper Yangisze, is claim, and
д substantive expected bore to-day. It is re- Hertford mado ported that he has rosigned owing claim to the dukedom. Thoroupon to inability to see aye to eyo Mr. Henry Seymour asked loave with Hsiao Yao-nan. In the event to attend by counsel to protect!
FIRST COMETS OF YEAR, of ble resignation being accopted, his interests upon the claim of Lu Chin-han, Divisional Com-the marquess. mander at Ichang, is considered The substantial question at
Discovery From Hamburg. likely to succoed him. Daily issue was whether Loonora's
first husband was alive at the From the Bergedorf Obsor- Bulletin.
dato
of her marriage with vatory, Hamburg, comes the an- Colonel Francis Seymour. There nouncement of the discovery by a was a tradition current in Mr. Russian astronmer, M. Schain, of Henry Seymoure's branch of the a promising new comet, which at family that John Hudson, though the time of discovery was moving believed to be dead, was in fact quickly in a north-westerly direc TAXI DRIVER ROBBED.. ·
aliva at that dato and that ation through the stars of Leo. A taxi-driver was robbed yes-second marriage was celebrated Being thus about 180 deg. from terday by two men who had between Colonel Seymour and the sun, the comet is well situat- engaged his machine at the Star Leonora after the birth of their fed in the night sky, crossing the two elder sons but before the meridian just before midnight and Ferry Wharf.
It is moving The driver was told to proceed birth of their third son, from being east of the meridian earlier to Jubilee Road. At a quiet spot whom Mr. Henry Seymour was in the evening. here the passengers alighted descended. It was, however, ad- through a group of faint stars from the taxi and walked off, mitted that no certificate of any near the eastern boundary of Leo, without offering to pay the fare. Buch second marriage could be some distance below the star a result Mr. Denebola, and its movement will Naturally anxious, the driver found, and as
Henry Seymour withdrew his take it towards the first magnit followed them, and it appears that this was exactly what the opposition to the original claim. ude star Regulus.
Quite a number of periodical! passengers wanted, for of a sud- The Marquess of Hertford was
descended from Francis Seymour, comets are expected to make their den they turned round on him, second Baron Conway, who reappearance this year, and it and hustled him up the hillside, where they tied him to a tros. in 1793 was greated Marquess of was at first stated that the new Hertford and Earl of Yarmouth, comet was what is known as Going through his pockets they and it was essential to the suc- Schoor's Comet, discovered at took from him his licence and a
cess of his claim to prove that Hamburg by Professor Schoor in! But it is very sum of $19.
John Hudson was alive at the November, 1908. time of Colonel Boymour's improbable that the Schoor Comet marriage with Leonora and that would be near enough to be seen BD early, and its calculated place there was no second marriage.
in the sky this month is nowhere near the place of the new comet.
There is little doubt that M. Schain's comet is a new one, and when discovered recently
TIED TO TREE.
EPIC OF EVEREST.
FINE FILM FOR THE STAR.petition
ANOTHER PETITION.
Since the last hearing a WRS presented by Major Richard Haroid St. Maur, We have been privileged to who asked that his claim to the as enjoy a private view of the soul-dukadom might be properly it was brighter than most new This petitioner comets it may shortly be visible' stirring film record of the ill-safeguarded. starred 1924 Mount Everest claimed to be the son of Edward to the naked eye or at any rate, expedition, which will be shown Adolphus Ferdinand Earl St. with a pair of fold-glassos, par at the Star Theatre, Kowloon, Maur, who died in 1869, by Ro- ticularly as it le so well situated commencing on Wednesday the sina Elizabeth Swan of Higham, for observation during convenient 6th inst. In presenting this film, near Bury St. Edmunds. The said hours.
Close on the,, announcement of Captain J. B. L. Noel, the official Edward Adolphus Ferdinand Earl photographor with the expedition, St. Maur was the older son of the M. Schain's discovery comes news and his collaborators bave beon 12th Duke of Somerset, who died of a second new comet. netted by faced with the difficulty that in 1885, when this claimant was a Mr. Reid, of the Cape of Good whereas the expedition followed minor. It was assumed on the Hope, whose name is already oxactly the same route as in 1922, death of the 12th duke that the attached to three other comets. camped in the same places up to petitioner was illegitimate, but The latest Reid Comet, however, the North Col, and went the same the patitoner alleged that no in-was situated some 20 dogs. below he only way up the moun-quiry to determine that question the celestial equator when found south- WAS moving tain, it was necessary last year by proper proof had ever been and to approach the subject from amade and that he had good hope westward. It will, therefore, be different angle: not only to avoid that be would be ultimately suc-difficult to make its acquaintance repetition of scenes already fami- cessful in proving that his father from our part of the world, as it liar, but for the higher and and mother were legally married will never rise far above, the, 80. paramount motive to avoid before his birth. vulgarising the tragedy of that The Committee came to the last climb up to the roof of the conclusion that John Hudson, first world" when George H. Leigh husband of Leonora, had died at Mallory and Andrew Comyn Calcutta prior to the second mar Irvine lost their lives.
riage, and Gen. Seymour's claim
The new record lays more hold good.
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Until it was proved possible to architecture, marvel of photographic liar representatives. The sweet-
FLAPPER FANNY says technique, He has provided a nose which it contains is not a capturo radon and bottle it for architect decided that the satis- sympathetic and moving record, sugar, but a glucoeld somewhat distribution, the Middlesex Hos- factory treatment of large win- which could not possibly have similiar to that found in the root pital was compelled, in the inter-dows for shop fronts underneath to begin been botter done.
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The two buildings da the deliberatly more restrained than plant as this are more or lose which would otherwise be wasted that of the 1922 flim, more obylous, says a writor in the Ame it is now possible to multiply narrow sites further west are of Good Health," It thousands of times the curative type which might have been Artistic and worthy of its title rican paper
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